Preprocessor Re: Want the word on __STDC__

timlee at public.btr.com timlee at public.btr.com
Fri Feb 22 17:41:18 AEST 1991


dhesi%cirrusl at oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
|In <1991Feb20.175702.28682 at zoo.toronto.edu> henry at zoo.toronto.edu
|(Henry Spencer) writes:
|
|     ...since many C compilers do not *have* a separate preprocessor.
|
|I may have to eat my words, but after extensive searching, I haven't
|yet found any commercially available C compiler that wasn't accompanied
|by a separately invokable preprocessor.

Do you mean a separate preprocessor program or a command line option
to "preprocess only"?  A C compiler may lack a separate preprocessor
but allow the main program to be invoked with a "preprocess only" option.



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